I don't watch a great deal of TV but I've gotten a bit hooked on "The Simple Life" with Nicole Ritchie and Paris Hilton. I originally started watching it to better understand our California TC members but now I'm hooked and feeling a bit ashamed and, yes, creepy.

A "guilty pleasure" is something that you know is in bad taste, bad for you, is completely lacking in any artistic merit, or is just plain dumb or stupid or vapid... but you like it anyway.

Because most people with taste and sense would recognize the worth of gin Martinis, "Rapper's Delight", Tiki finds, "Country Western Sunday", porn, Astro Boy, and Tiki Central, they aren't really "guilty pleasures". However, it has been scientifically proven that the Carpenters suck, so if you like 'em that is a guilty pleasure...But anyone who doesn't like it when I put their Christmas album on can leave my party.